Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | Most Reverend |
Francisco de Cosío y Otero | |
Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada | |
Church: | Catholic Church |
Archdiocese: | Archdiocese of Santafé en Nueva Granada |
Term: | 1704–1715 |
Predecessor: | Ignacio de Urbina |
Successor: | Francisco del Rincón |
Consecration: | 6 Apr 1704 |
Consecrated By: | Pedro Portocarrero y Guzmán |
Birth Date: | 12 Apr 1640 |
Birth Place: | Turieno, Spain |
Death Date: | 29 Nov 1715 (age 75) |
Death Place: | Bogota, Colombia |
Francisco de Cosío y Otero (1640–1715) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada (1704–1715).[1] [2]
Francisco de Cosío y Otero was born in Turieno, Spain on 12 Apr 1640.On 14 Jan 1704, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement XI as Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada.On 6 Apr 1704, he was consecrated bishop by Pedro Portocarrero y Guzmán, Patriarch of West Indies, with Benito Madueño y Ramos, Titular Bishop of Sion and Atanasio Esterriga Trajanáuregui, Titular Bishop of Lycopolis, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada until his death on 29 Nov 1715.
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Jerónimo Nosti de Valdés, Bishop of Puerto Rico (1704).